Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
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Sometimes the online world reveals unsuspected parallel dimensions. This is an unknown restyle of Neural independently (and secretly as we never knew about it) made by NY-based Motion and Graphic Designer, Clarke Blackham. Very nicely made, perhaps only a bit glossier for the magazine’s line, it testifies once more how even your most familiar outcomes can have another life somewhere else.
The value of craft after software sounds rampant sometimes, expressing the freedom of escaping repetitive taps and clicks to accomplish some assumed tasks. Mixing media, electricity, electronics, mechanics and inert objects Graham Dunning has realised a structured track/performance/open script in his “Mechanical Techno: Ghost in the Machine Music.” More than a proof of concept a machine music declination.
Isn’t ASCII Art a perfect form of “graffiti” in 2010s? The 8-bit aesthetics is among the strongest visual references connecting the analogue recent past with the omni-digital present, so why not adopt it to finally have some public art embedded in the present? In Varberg, Sweden, 2016, the GOTO80 crew (feat: Karin Andersson) did it, choosing (not by accident) the Mo Soul Amiga-font.
YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.
The relationship between Andy Warhol and personal computers (becoming quite popular during his last years) has been only partially investigated beyond his Amiga works. In November 2015, Sotheby’s sold his “Apple (from Ads)” (acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas) for 910.000 USD, and in catalogue’s notes Warhol tells about his meeting with Steve Jobs insisting to give him one and showing him how to draw (even if still in black and white): “we went into Sean [John Lennon’s son]’s bedroom–and there was a kid there setting up the Apple computer that Sean had gotten as a present, the Macintosh model. I said that once some man had been calling me a lot wanting to give me one, but that I’d never called him back or something, and then the kid looked up and said, ‘Yeah, that was me. I’m Steve Jobs.’ And he looked so young, like a college guy. And he told me that he would still send me one now. And then he gave me a lesson on drawing with it. It only comes in black and white now, but they’ll make it soon in color…I felt so old and out of it with this young whiz guy right there who helped invent it.”
Harsh Noise Wally, is a sophisticated mashup mixing strips of Wally, the lazy and cynic colleague of Dilbert with some epic noise music extreme attitudes. Well conceived and assembled.
Minority Report comes closer… Three huge screens at Birmingham New Street railway station are scanning passers-by and play advertisements accordingly. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-street-station-advertising-screens-9920400
GoPro ancestors in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly sport and movie persons like F1 driver Jackie Stewart, Bob Sinclair and Steve McQueen.
Network Research » Arithmetik Garden
Arithmetik Garden by Sato Masahiko and Kiriyama Takashi is another work which was exhibited at ICC in Tokyo last year, this time as part of the Open Space. Users enter the garden with a numbered RFID →
Deep in the forest, something is subverting the natural order of nature. HC Gilje’s Wind-up Bird(s) is a flock of electronic / mechanical woodpeckers mounted high in the trees of Lillehammer forest, Norway. →
CD – Extreme
In Japanese, “Maju” (pronounced ‘may-you’) has approximately the same meaning as the English word “cocoon”. So in this album, the music-induced relaxation is completely different to that often obtained in →
BBC NEWS | Technology | Compulsive gamers ‘not addicts’
Ninety per cent of the young people who seek treatment for compulsive computer gaming are not addicted.
(tags: videogame hacktivism)
Atlantic Records Says Digital Sales Surpass CDs – NYTimes.com
Atlantic, a unit of Warner Music →
Revolver, ISBN 9783865884558, Germany, 2008, English
t0/Public Netbase has undoubtedly played an important historical role in new media art and politics. Konrad Becker, its initiator and the visionary behind Public Netbase, placed →
CD – Nonvisualobjects
Coherent auditory elements, proliferation of individual sound ideas, field recordings, absences and frequencies, non-linearity, suspension and saturation, drones, ambience and conceptualism. These are just a few of the elements →
BBC NEWS | Technology | Compulsive gamers ‘not addicts’
Ninety per cent of the young people who seek treatment for compulsive computer gaming are not addicted.
(tags: videogame hacktivism)
Atlantic Records Says Digital Sales Surpass CDs – NYTimes.com
Atlantic, a unit of Warner Music →
Robbie Martin (as known as Fluorescent Grey) is a musician and provocateur who has become famous as a producer of fake material. He was responsible for the video of an American soldier’s beheading →
Digg Attack – A JavaScript Game – Nihilogic
A Digg-’em-up struggle against the overwhelming forces of social media.
(tags: media videogame hacking net)
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262026420, USA, 2008, English
The gigantic media effort to justify the senseless war in Iraqi has become an historical case study for 21st century journalism (as the first Gulf →
バンダイ【ツッツキバコ】公式サイト
Tuttuki Bako, a videogame for your fingers.
(tags: media videogame)
Playpen » Blog Archive » Playing Word Games in Blog Comments
word-association and other games going on in the comments of Fail Blog posts
(tags: literature art net)
collision detection: Suzanne Vega, “Tom’s Diner,” and →
Oiligarchy is the new online flash game released by Mollenidustria. In this new adventure designed by Paolo Pedercini the player is CEO of a major international oil company. He acts as an “oiligarch” with →
CD – Ad Noiseam
Rethinking jazz in the advent of digital; connecting old energies with new subgenres of glitch post-avant-garde. This is not an easy project – it isn’t enough to put together →
HDDJ: hard drive as rotary input – Hack a Day
“Rotary input device” for audio mixing.
(tags: hacking music performance)
